Samsung rules world smartphone sales

Nearly 330 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the second quarter of 2015, with one in five of them produced by Korean manufacturer Samsung.

21.08.2015

(AFP) Nearly 330 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the second quarter of 2015, with one in five of them produced by Korean manufacturer Samsung.

Overall sales represented a 13.5 percent increase compared
to the same period one year earlier, according to Gartner. The numbers nevertheless revealed the
slowest progression recorded since 2013.

Samsung remained the top-selling smartphone brand in the world
between the months of April and June, despite having lost market share
(21.9 percent against 26.2 percent in 2014) to Apple, which gained some ground (+2.4
points of market share) and Chinese manufacturers Huawei (+1.7 points)
and Xiaomi (+0.6 points).

In all, Samsung sold 72 million
smartphones during this period compared to 48 million for Apple. Huawei
(25.8 million), Lenovo (16.4 million) and Xiaomi (16 million) complete
the top five.

Regarding operating systems, Android and iOS together held almost 95 percent
of all smartphone sales. Google's operating system represented 82.2 percent of
global smartphone sales (-1.6 points) against 14.6 percent for iOS (+2.4
points). Windows Phone and Blackberry were nowhere near the same figures
with, respectively, 2.5 percent (-0.3 points) and 0.3 percent (-0.4 points) of the
global market share.

All models combined (not only smartphones), Samsung has sold 88
million mobile phones across the globe in the second quarter, far ahead
of Apple (48 million), Microsoft (27.6 million), Huawei (26.1 million)
and LG (17.6 million).